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What are some things you would like to see a sort of spiritual successor to? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Not a remake or remaster or rerelease of something old, but something inspired or influenced by something either popular or a cult classic. Also this could extend to hardware/tech too, not only media.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Redox OS

I've had it on my "to try" list for a while, but haven't set aside time yet. It looks pretty good on paper, though.

New OSes have a tough hill to climb, with a mountain of hardware drivers. Until theres a decent corpus of drivers, running on bare metal is limited to a small few number of people.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ive tried redox before, its in a very basic state, ive never gotten it to boot on real hardware and there are only a few basic utilities and Netsurf installed

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, building an OS is a lot of work. It may be a while (if ever) before Redox is a daily driver; it took Linux 10 years before it was a viable option, and another 10 before it was common... and that was back when there was far less hardware to support. Uphill battle, like I said. However, it's actively developed, has more than one contributor, and ticks the requested boxes: Rust, micro, modern.